Stargate Atlantis: Love of the Enemy.
Chapter 1.
Gunshots echoed throughout an entangled forest of trees. Light, emitted from weapons fire, created blinding flashes in darkness of the night. Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard and his team and Major Lorne and his team tried to hold off the oncoming onslaught of Wraith. However they were running out of ammo and outnumbered 2 to 1.
"Get back to the Jumper!" Sheppard bellowed to Lorne over the deafening noise of the weapons fire.
"What about you?" Major Lorne shouted as he aimed his P90 at two Wraith to his left, felling them both with strategic shots.
"We'll hold the fort, go NOW!" Sheppard ordered. Lorne and his team fell back as Teyla, Ronon and McKay headed to Sheppard's side.
"We won't be able to hold them off for much longer." Rodney shouted to Sheppard with panic clear in his voice.
"Thank you Rodney. I couldn't tell." Sheppard yelled back, clearly annoyed by McKay's negative input.
"We should get back to the Jumper as soon as possible." Teyla noted as she shot down an approaching Wraith. "They will soon overpower us."
"Okay," Sheppard sighed, admitting defeat. "Start heading back, but don't let your guard down."
They hastily began backing towards the Jumper. Keeping a constant stream of bullets aimed at the trees in which, the Wraith were using as cover.
"Lorne we are almost at the Jumper." Sheppard called into his radio. "It's going to be tight but we should get away before the Wraith can catch up"
"Okay, copy that." Was Lorne's brisk reply into the radio.
"Okay, hurry it up." Sheppard ordered his team. "We're almost there."
McKay was the first one to enter the Jumper. Throwing himself to the floor he took a sigh of relief and thanked god. Ronon was next, his arm was injured and bleeding freely but he did not draw attention to it.
Sheppard and Teyla stayed back to fend off a couple of Wraith at the entrance of the Jumper. However a Wraith, unseen by them, made a move from Teyla's right. Hitting her with a stunning weapon, she gasped as she fell.
"Teyla!" Sheppard shouted, turning his gun on the Wraith he unloaded. The Wraith fell to its knees and let out a ghastly squeal as it hit the ground.
"Ronon, Rodney! Teyla's been hit, can I get some help here!" Sheppard screamed back into the Jumper.
Ronon gave some cover fire from the doorway as Rodney helped Sheppard drag Teyla into the safety of the Jumper.
"What about the Wraith?" Rodney called back to Sheppard. "Do we just leave it?"
"No bring it along, it's dead it can't do much and it will give Beckett some more to work with for the retrovirus." Sheppard answered.
Rodney gave the dead Wraith a disapproving look as he dragged it into the back of the ship.
"Ronon, get in, we're about to get out of here." Sheppard ordered from the controls. Ronon jumped back as the ship prepared to take off.
"Dial earth. I think we've past our welcome."
"What happened?" A strong Scottish accent broke through Sheppard's thoughts "Teyla, was hit by a Wraith stunner." Sheppard replied and followed Carson
Beckett to the infirmary. "Will she be alright?"
"Aye, she should be, it doesn't seem to be a direct hit." Beckett injected Teyla with some sort of drug and checked her body for abrasions. "Apart from the stunning she is perfectly fine. I'll keep her in overnight just to be sure."
Sheppard nodded in understanding and drew Beckett's attention to a second stretcher. "We also brought back a dead Wraith for help with improving the retrovirus."
Carson walked over to the stretcher and studied the Wraith.
"Oh, god no." Beckett exclaimed.
"Is there a problem?" Sheppard ran over to where Beckett was standing.
"Aye, it's a Wraith, but the problem is, it isn't dead."
"What are you going to do with it?" Elisabeth Weir asked Sheppard and Beckett.
"Kill it." Ronon interjected, entering Weir's office to listen.
"We could do that or we could use the retrovirus." Beckett suggested.
"And have another Michael?" Sheppard asked incredulously.
"Well we need to prefect the virus. We'll just handle the situation differently from how we did with Michael." Beckett pleaded to Weir.
"And you can be certain you can do that?" Weir directed her question to Beckett.
"Well, we know more about the retrovirus now and we should be able to do things differently." Beckett concluded.
"What do you think John?" Weir was certain that John's opinion would be what made the decision.
"I think give Beckett another chance to try his virus. We need a way to defeat the Wraith and this is the best option we've got."
"Okay, you have a go." Weir told Beckett, ignoring protests from Ronon. "Just make sure that you know you're doing the right thing."
"Okay, the first dose of the Retrovirus is working as expected." Beckett reported to Weir as they stood in an observatory above the examination room in which the Wraith was being held. "Its still unconscious, however I have been able to work out that it is female."
Weir studied the unmoving Wraith for a while longer.
"Keep me posted Doctor." She said as she left the room.
As she walked along one of the many corridors of the city she ran into Teyla, who was heading back to her quarters.
"Ah Teyla, good to see you up and about." Weir smiled sincerely and Teyla nodded with a smile.
"Thank you Doctor Weir. I heard about the experiments on the Wraith we brought back from the planet."
"Yes, Doctor Beckett believes that things can be done differently this time."
"Maybe that it so, but maybe we should not experiment on live Wraiths the way we are, I agree that they need to be stopped but by using the retrovirus in this way things are not improving anything. As we saw with Michael."
Weir closed her eyes and took Teyla's opinion in.
"Perhaps you are right. But the fact is that I gave this experiment permission to go ahead so if Carson can't control the Wraith or Human for that matter, then the blame will be put on me."
"This is not a matter of blame or control. It is a matter of what is right. The way we are transforming these Wraith is not right, this time, if you want to make it more moral, you must not lie. It was these lies that made Michael act as he did."
Teyla spoke honestly and Weir respected that. However not to lie, and to tell the truth straight out seemed unreasonable.
"How do we know the truth would stop a Michael-like reaction?" Weir questioned Teyla's theory. "That truth would be overwhelming to someone who will probably suffer for the same amnesia as Michael did. There must be someway not to lie but not to be so upfront."
Teyla nodded, clearly not wanting to start any form of argument.
"Hopefully you make the right decision." She then turned and left Weir, continuing to her room.
Weir frowned, the facts Teyla had pointed out about Beckett's second attempt at humanizing the Wraith troubled her. However, she decided to voice her concerns at a later time.
In the examination room John, Rodney and Elisabeth watched as Carson injected the Wraith with the Retrovirus. It was the second day of the injections and a lot of progress was being made
"So what name are we going to give this one?" Sheppard smiled. "What about Larissa?"
"Wow, that's not as simple as you usually go for." Beckett mused in surprise turning his back on the test Wraith to face Weir, Sheppard and McKay.
"What can I say? There was this chick in high school that I had a thing for, and her name was Larissa."
"Who would have thought Sheppard was that deep?" Rodney lifted an eyebrow and looked at Weir, who had an amused smile on her face.
"What about a surname then?" Beckett asked, looking at the childish smile on Sheppard's face. "What about," Sheppard looked around him looking for something that would make a good surname, "Spoon." He said as he's eyes rested on a spoon like object.
"That's not a spoon, what do you think I'm doing, baking a cake?" Beckett said in his thick Scottish accent, looking strangely at Sheppard.
"What about something common like Smith?" Rodney added offhandedly.
"Okay it's settled," said Weir cutting off John who had every intention of auguring another name. "Larissa Smith."
Rodney made a non committal noise in his throat and John nodded with a smile.
"She better be hot."
Rodney looked clearly shocked by Sheppard's last comment.
"She's a Wraith!" he said with a scandalized look on his face.
"A human Wraith," John added hopelessly.
"Whatever she looks like, we've got to decided how to break the news to her softly." Weir looked at the three men before her. "Who and how are we going to do that?"
Rodney shot a swift glance at Carson. "I think the doc should do it."
"Why?" Carson asked giving Rodney a hard stare.
"Because you're a doctor and you know how to let people down softly." McKay stated as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Yeah, but my job is telling people the facts, not letting them down softly." Beckett argued.
"Exactly, telling them the facts." Rodney pointed out. "Colonel, you agree with me don't you?"
"Sure, why not, McKay." Sheppard said with as much non conviction in his voice as he could.
"Alright, I'll do it." Carson said with a sigh of annoyance.
"It's sorted then." Sheppard smiled "and if you'll excuse me, I'm sure I have somewhere I have to be."
Sheppard walked out of the examination room and Rodney turned to follow.
"I'm sure there is something that needs my superior intelligence." McKay excused himself and left leaving Weir and Beckett alone.
"So are you completely sure about this Doctor?" Elisabeth asked Beckett softly.
"I don't know, but it's worth a try. We need this to work." Beckett answered bluntly. "Hopefully I'll have some time to work out what to say before she wakes up."
Elisabeth eyes widened and she smiled slightly.
"I think you just ran out of time for that. She's awake."
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Author's notes
First and foremost. I don't own any rights to Stargate and no copyright infringement is intended, this is just purely fan made for fans.
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I hope you do enjoy this chapter.